Irish Literary Times

John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026 Dublin City Council is encouraging people to read Christine Falls in April and attend events connected with the novel

John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026
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Best Social Media at #GIBA26 tonight.
The only award where the acceptance speech is immediately followed by "Sorry, I have to post this.” 🏆📲

Cheering for everyone who makes brands feel human, keeps the comments kind & somehow finds time to eat canapés while uploading a reel & holding a glass!

Elvis is back in the building!

Not really. I was camping there a few years back when I was asked to give a reading to a group visiting from Wellesley College, Ma.

Do you know the full address

That's cool

AND we won't work either. Win-win-win.

I shipped 40 boxes of books from Canada to Ireland five years ago and put them into storage. Two weeks ago, I had to move them to a new storage space—the weight mattered. (I like to think a slim book of poetry weighs more than a sprawling novel, but the movers and shippers would strongly disagree.)

Many congratulations

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling.

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@kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

Many congratulations!!!

Richard Hell

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Congratulations!

@irishlittimes.bsky.social

It's no mere coincidence we will be discussing Tim O'Brien's masterpiece of prose The Things They Carried, at the closure to my American Short Story course tonight at the Irish Writers Centre (alongside A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin).

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

👋 Meet the cast for the 2026 Spring Tour of Macbeth!

Garry Hynes directs 11 of Ireland's finest actors, led by Marty Rea as Macbeth and fellow Tony Award winner Marie Mullen as Lady Macbeth.

Tickets for Macbeth at druid.ie

Galway: 25 March–5 April
Belfast: 16–19 April
Limerick: 23–25 April

Galway launch of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 with Sarah Kenny of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

‘Pleading The Belly‘ by John O'Donnell is available to read now:

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“As I raised myself on my elbows, she lowered her head over me, just beneath my belly button. One hand stroked my skin, while her other hand held the receptacle below.“

Thanks, Books Ireland, and congratulations to all!
FOUR NIGHT SEAS is launching 19th March in Liber Bookshop, Sligo at 17:30.
I will be dressed in flowing robes and will be speaking in tongues for a portion of the launch. 🥕🧭

Congrats.

Gut-wrenching account of the Troubles I have met numerous people who romanticized and glorified the violence that occurred during the Northern Irish Troubles that claimed more than 3,60...

Dirty Linen is now available to buy in the US. Here is a review by Geoffrey Cobb in the New York-based Irish Echo.

www.irishecho.com/2025/9/gut-w...

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

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Saw King Kong as a very young boy and was smitten.

Sounds like a regular night at my writing group.

Is my work never done?😉

Did you know the
@nlireland.bsky.social
houses original artworks by actual people who are still alive. If you get in touch you can view original art from #TheLatenightWritersClub which held safe and warm in their Illustration archives for all eternity

Thank you to the Belltable for being a super venue for the Festival. Wonderful to have all the events in one place and thanks to the staff for the smooth running of it all.
#LLF2026